Cholar Dal

Source : Soak Dal In Water For 30 Minutes Clean And Drain Excess Watertransfer Dal To Pressure Cooker Add Turmeric Salt And 2 5 Cup Watercook Until Done It S...

PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings

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at : April 3, 2026

Step:

  1. Soak Dal in water for 30 minutes. Clean and drain excess water

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  2. Transfer Dal to pressure cooker. Add turmeric, salt and 2.5 cup water

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  3. Cook until done, it should not be mushy. Dal should be cooked yet retain it's shape. Lightly mash some portion of dal. Keep it aside. Dal should not be too thick or thin. It should have lightly thicker consistency

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  4. Heat ghee in a pan. Add thinly sliced coconut and fry until golden brown. Keep it aside

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  5. In Same pan, add hing and cumin seeds. Allow cumin seeds to crackle

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  6. Add dry red chillies, cloves, cinnamon, green cardamom and bay leaf and fry for a few seconds.Add ginger and green chilli and fry for another few seconds. You can also add spice powders if required

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  7. Pour the seasoning and fried coconut with raisins and sugar to dal and mix well

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  8. Serve hot with Luchi, Radha Ballavi or Puris

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Ingredients

  1. 1 cup Chana Dal / bengal gram
  2. 2.5 cups water
  3. to taste Salt
  4. 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
  5. 1/4 cup thinly sliced coconut
  6. 3-4 tbsp ghee
  7. 1/4 teaspoon Hing / asafoetida
  8. 3-4 cloves
  9. 1 bay leaf
  10. 1 teaspoon Ginger grated
  11. 1 teaspoon green chillies finely chopped
  12. 4-5 dry red chillies
  13. 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  14. 2-3 green cardamom
  15. 1 inch cinnamon
  16. 1 tbsp Raisins
  17. 1 teaspoon sugar

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